Re: [Sablevm-developer] Various stuff

[Etienne M. G. <eti...@uq...>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:02:50PM +0000, Ian Rogers wrote:
> I checked it out and everything built for me just fine. I couldn't
> (didn't try too hard) to get jakarta-ant to build for me, so I just used
> the binary version. But yep, great :-)

I don't like much ant's packaging.  I will probably make a simpler package
for people to build/install.  I need to do this, anyway, for my students,
as I do not want them to fight with the system to get ant & xerxes installed;
they're new to Java:)

As Tuesday is my teaching day, I won't be able to accomplish much today.
Please be forgiving.

> I don't actually need java.util.zip (I think). It may just be worth
> waiting for classpath to integrate jazzlib. If that takes too long then
> we can integrate it, but it should probably be a low priority unless
> there is a particular need.

I'd like, at some point, to have the system class-loader (which is NOT
the bootstrap class-loader, and IS written in java) to load classes
out of jar files.  The zip stuff would be great for this.  But it can wait
a little.

Would you try contacting the 2 persons Brian refered to in his reply to me?
Maybe they're on vacation, or inactive, or whatever; so it would be a good
idea to check that they are aware that people are waiting for action.  It
is my experience that when Brian says that somebody is responsible for
something, it means that he himself is not responsible for it; it does not
necessarily mean that he will do anything to contact the responsible person
and try to get things moving...

> > - I've modified "build.xml" so that it does not try to compile the
> > classes
> > listed in the file "broken-classes" (new also).
> 
> Works a treat.

So, are you sold on not using the GNU auto* stuff for Java code?  It was
a SableCC user that introduced me to Ant.  Once you get to know it, you
don't want to go back to Makefiles (or GNU auto*) for your Java projects.

> OK, I'm playing with sablepath-libs now. I'll let you know of problems I
> find with them and SpecJVM. Ta,

Hmmm...  I haven't updated sablepath-libs with the latest Classpaht CVS
snapshot.  I still have to adapt my "extracting" scripts for the latest
code.

But, you can certainly have a quick look, to see how I think the code should
be organized.  Mainly, I organize the code into one directory for every .so
library that can be loaded through System.loadLibrary().

Etienne
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Etienne M. Gagnon                               eti...@uq...
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